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Record 1 1999-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
DEF

Also Chaldaea. Ancient region on the Euphrates River and the Persian Gulf, Asia; originally the south part of Babylonia.

Key term(s)
  • Chaldaea

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
DEF

Géographie ancienne. Terme ancien qui désignait la basse Mésopotamie et Sumer.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

An inhabitant of Sumer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
OBS

Habitant de Sumer, une région correspondant à la Basse-Mésopotamie, en bordure du golfe Persique.

Spanish

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Record 3 1983-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

an ancient country located north of Persian gulf, speaking a non-semitic language; it invented cuneiform writing from the middle of the 4th millennium B.C.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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